Dietary Supplement Polypharmacy: An Unrecognized Public Health Problem?
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Dietary Supplement Polypharmacy: An Unrecognized Public Health Problem?
Excessive and inappropriate use of medications, or 'polypharmacy', has been recognized as a public health problem. In addition, there is growing use of dietary supplements in the United States; however, little is known about the patterns of supplement use. Recent reports in the literature of cases of excessive or inappropriate use of herbal dietary supplements leading to the term 'polyherbacy'....
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1741-427X,1741-4288
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem150